John VanLeeuwen
1970 immigrant to Canada from Holland, arrived on Wednesday July 1st, played my first service on July 5th, I have been smitten by the organ since I was 6 or 7 years old. My dad and a brother and brother in law moved our organ from the old to the new church in '54, I repeated this with the help of 50 members of our church after we bought a used organ from a Methodist church in Altoona Penn. My wife has been a member since 1960, our 3 kids all play, Our daughter plays the flute, the middle boy is "smitten" by his guitars, he is in the process of building one, the oldest boy also plays the organ and is a youth leader.
Organs and more organs, with two, sometimes more organ friends, we travel around to visit churches and get to play on some wonderful organs, our last trip was to Rochester and Buffalo. I have a two manual Halbert Gober pipe organ in our living room. Besides playing the organ I am involved as the leader of our Men's bible study group, which meets once monthly in a local restaurant, I also organize a yearly benefit concert, sponsored by our church for a local homeless shelter, both for men and families and soon to be added, a shelter for homeless women.
I can't remember standing for the reading of the Word, the Apostolic creed which we used every Sunday was sung for a long time, but this was done in a time where we would stand for each hymn if...
viewHi Simon, thanks for your reply and wisdom in it, wow, it really is a thin line separating the me or God side of it. I must say, using your Maxim and perhaps changing the way I put it, that you...
viewHi Simon, if I understand you correctly, yes indeed, it is all up to God to accept or refuse our offering/worship (Cain and Able). If we don't like the service, and I am speaking for myself, that...
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